Sofar ME3000SP

I guess I’ve a spare wifi yoke so 😂

😂 ya there’s feic all in the standard inverter after so. Mad.

so i have a hybrid inverter (located in the garage) connected to the house and pannels . also have a change over switch (next to the Consumer unit)

i take it that this will complicate things ? or will it , do i just place the sofar between the existing inverter and the out put to the consumer unit ? but if i do if theres a power cut will the battries feed power to the hybrid inverter making it think the mains is ok .. ? ie keep power to the firemans switch .

as the sketch shows the hybrid has a ct clamp ,, where would the clamps on the sofar be located ..

i bought 32 cells and a bms for a diy 20kwh battery , only to realise the Solax inverter only works with proprierty battries , so trying to minimise the loss. . was hoping to keep the inverter i have and just add the sofar. ?

You could, but you might make a few hundred if you sold the Solax hybrid and bought a conventional inverter to replace it

BTW your drawing is perfect, that's what many of us have. Except you wouldn't need the CT clamp from your solar inverter anymore

The only bit an electrician needs to do is to connect the AC side of the inverter into it's own RCBO / MCB.

If you deffo go this route then yes, you might as well get a string inverter or see can he install a SOFAR hybrid instead. That would negate the need for looking for an ME3000.

The Sofar kit is the most flexible, especially for home automation

Very much doubt installer will do anything other than solax inverters.

Am thinking that long term my best bet will be the 2.96kwp on roof on string inverter plus another 2.5kwp on shed roof on cheap solartricity string inverter.

Would me3000sp work ok in this configuration or would the two inverters confuse things?

Hi All,

I'm seeing some comments here about not being able to draw from the seplos until the batteries are charged fully.

Is this with a SoFar/Seplos combo or is it with another inverter.

Would be a bit of a disaster for me if I couldn't draw until it was charged.

// Gary

Ah I could be reading a few threads wrong on here so don't mind me. Was reading a few posts irishchris was having about high voltage cutoff and I also saw a few comments from yourself around node red.

I want to get it up and running first and then look at adding on the fancy node red stuff.

So once it can charge and discharge the same way my sofar + pylon are working at the moment I don't really mind.

:Why aren't you getting a 6kW dual :MPPT inverter though? Both your :strings can then go into that inverter

Will ask installer about 6kw dual string but they may charge a few hundred to upgrade from 3.7 KW to 6. In which case it seems easier to have a second inverter say 2 KW out in shed. No cable runs needed back to the house and battery added later via sofar me3000

Hi Graememk,

I have been using the python version on a RPI/NanoPI however I have been tinkering with sofar2mqtt with a wemosd1. Problem I have is that I can't get some of the values to format properly, mainly the ones requiring division of 65535 / 2 etc. Can you give a steer on how the formatting works as I am getting the calculated value and the value the calculation was taken from.

Many thanks.

Negate purely in terms of DIY battery or can the hybrid (any hybrid while we're at it) charge from grid?

I checked the manual and don't see any mention of grid charge on the hybrid for battery when solar isn't available. It would be perfect if it did.